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Tim Blonsky knows how to overcome barriers. The 35-year-old Marlborough resident has only about 30 percent hearing. With a hearing aid, he can hear at 70 percent, but he still misses a lot, he said. "I face language barriers every day," Blonsky said. "I miss out on a lot of things in conversations." Blonsky, who works helping people with disabilities find and sustain employment, is working to help ensure that other deaf people don't have to miss anything. Satto Technologies, a new start-up born out of Manchester's collaborative co-working space Axis 901, is in the early stages of developing C Speak, an application for smart phones and Google Glass that would...

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CANTON, Ohio — NFL commissioner Roger Goodell defended the league's two-game suspension of Ray Rice on Friday, commenting publicly for the first time since his controversial decision last week created a firestorm on social media.
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Right at the cusp of wide acceptance and destined to be widely used in the home, says Glen Hill, is wearable technology.
"You'll see Costco, Walmart and Target setting up kiosks for this in short order. Something like Google Glass is just the...

The NIZ affect spreads to other parts of Allentown as demolition begins at the Waterfront development along the Lehigh River... Bad news at the boardwark: Since January, four of 11 casinos in Atlantic City have closed, announced plans to close or gone...

Could American football soon take a page from Australian rugby? According to the Courier-Mail of Brisbane, National Football League officials and broadcasters are interested in adopting referee helmet cameras similar to those used in the Aussies' National...

Signaling confidence in Allentown's ongoing renaissance, the Pennsylvania Municipal League plans to hold its annual convention in Allentown next year for the first time in 25 years... Controversy is brewing over the sale of the company led by Air...

Plans to give consumers a faster way to switch among the state's many competing electricity suppliers took a big step forward ...The developer of proposed Costco in Lower Macungie says he really, really needs the township to agree to tax breaks ...

Sick and tired of winter? If you have oil heat, there's one more reason to be unhappy about the cold: rising oil prices. Could Google Glass be more than just the latest hipster accessory? One Montgomery County woman is testing it as a way to help patients...

If you Google "what makes employees happy," you'll get thousands of links on management gurus' discourse on the connection between employee satisfaction levels and corporate success.
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For Lehigh Valley native Dion Santo, the search for new employment opportunities took him to Google—not the search engine on his computer, but the search engine's headquarters in Mountain View, California.
Santo grew up in North Whitehall Township and...

YouTube says it's making a further push into virtual reality, promising to add 3-D support for videos that play back in its 360-degree format. Thursday's announcement comes a day after the debut of the first online 360-degree ad, a commercial for Bud...

Q: My Google Android tablet computer is getting pop-up ads that urge me to download free apps from Google Play (an online app store for devices using the Android operating system). Is there a way to disable these �pop-ups? Also, I recently noticed...

Google's stock roared out of a long slumber Friday to produce the biggest shareholder windfall in U.S. history as investors rewarded the Internet company for promising to curb its spending on risky projects. A 16 percent surge in Google's publicly...

After years of big spending on risky projects that CEO Larry Page proudly hails as "moonshots," Google may be launching into a new orbit of financial discipline. Investor hopes for a more austere Google are largely tied to the arrival of a new...

MOUNTAIN VIEW, Calif. Google has a new chief financial officer in town, and she's already become a symbol of what Wall Street wants from the company: more discipline. Ruth Porat, a former executive at Morgan Stanley, repeatedly touted the...

Wearable tech, that much-buzzed-about phenomenon coming soon to a body (very) near yours, has already arrived at the Computer History Museum in Mountain View, Calif., with an exhibit called "On You: A Story of Wearable Computing." To get...

The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau has delivered a strong message to Internet scammers: Don't mess with student loan debtors.
Those borrowers are a tempting target, given that there are about 40 million of them who collectively owe more than $1.2...

Google PhotosFree for iOS and Android.What it is: Google Photos is the American Express of apps: Don't leave home without it. The app has a treasure chest of photo aids from auto backup to editing tools, organization and an assistant that...